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lhardyl
January 28th, 2008, 10:32 PM
Ive been perusing the forums for someone else who has a problem the same as me with no such luck.

Ive installed steam, and the orange box as well as CS:S, but whenever i try to run any of the games my screen changes res (as if going into the game) but then nothing appears, no black screen no valve movie etc. nothing. And the resolution stays at the changed res (1024x768)

yes it's an ATI card (9600 pro) and Ive tried manually installing the catalyst drivers through terminal as was suggested in another thread, to no avail.

Any support would be much appreciated

Thanks in advance

alsamman
January 29th, 2008, 12:05 AM
make sure that you dont have beryl/compiz on

lhardyl
January 29th, 2008, 12:12 AM
erm.. meaning?

lol sorry bit of a nub. :lolflag:

but ive heard of that before

karth
January 29th, 2008, 05:55 AM
You have to make sure you have deactivated the desktop effects (System -> Administration -> Appearance -> Desktop effects off)